Le Tour de Carbs This week I’ve been cooking for a group of 30 athletes cycling 3 cols of the Pyrenees. It was like discovering a secret...
Recipe | Potato salad
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France
Asparagus and roasted Jerusalem artichoke salad recipe
Perked up by Spring ! Last week I almost fainted. By instruction of a client I was purchasing some relatively good-looking apples from a...
French Apple Tart recipe
Car parks, whisky, wine and tarts The recent weeks have involved cooking for a Shabbat in West London, a whisky tasting lunch and...
Raviules with garlic, reblochon, wild mushrooms and parsley
Apple of my Pie Navigating airports at half term can seem a bit like playing a kid's computer game. The route from departures in one...
Recipe | Grilled Goats cheese salad with beetroot, figs and mint
Uzès charm from every door. On the wild off-chance you didn’t spend your childhood watching My Fair Lady, “Oozing charm from...
Fried ceps with baked polenta and gruyere
Did I ‘over cep’ the mark? The week was not as planned. My diary had me in the dramatic depths of wild Scotland cooking for my first...
Climb every mountain
Climb every mountain... If one felt so inclined (or capable) the area surrounding St Remy de Provence is perfect for getting on a bike and...
Pistachio, mint and vodka ice cream with pistachio praline
Cooking for numbers The party had already started when I arrived at the villa in Provence and so the first days of my week were spent in...
Tartiflette
She'll be comin' down the mountain... ‘Whether she likes it or not’, My ski buddy for the day cheerfully chanted. It had a been a while...
Recipe | Thai flavoured chicken and sesame balls
The Thigh who came in from the cold.. Having recently been on quite a few flights I realise you don’t have to be in Sherlock’s league to...
Recipe | Tomato and Dijon tart with herbs of the Garrigue
Shrugs, shrubs, scrubs and snubs Down in the region of Languedoc Roussillon the usually sleepy countryside was abuzz with activity. The...
Toasted buttered cobnut salad with garden plums, steamed marrow and Comte cheese
Pigs are pets not pork…. I am not sure I should admit how delighted I was to be woken by a handsome stranger quietly standing at my door....
Camargue red rice with roast fillet of beef, chard and black olive sauce
Wild horses and rice…. kept me from leaving This week I ventured forth into the depths of the Camargue, a beautiful unique...
Cherry Clafoutis
Feeling Fruity? Well I am down in the south of France and things are hotting up. Stationed near Les-Baux de Provence, a stunning...
Pan fried duck breast with fennel, hazelnut and orange salad and a white bean, sausage and tomato salad
Getting your ducks (and goats, sheep, pigs and alpacas) all in a row Well here we all are the other side of Easter. I hope disrespectable...
Recipe | Asparagus and Wild Garlic Galette AND a Rhubarb Ramos Gin Fizz
Paris, the city of light, love and lunch... I confess the trip to Paris was a jolly. It involved lots of walking to counter...
Chocolate, chestnut and ginger Yule Log
That Old Chestnut... Chilled milky blue light rested over the Alpilles mountains as I drove towards my final pre Christmas job...
Recipe | Roast porcini with anchovy breadcrumbs and Chanterelles with lardons and cheese toasts
The fun-gi gets chosen..... This week I find myself waking up with stunning views across a vineyard in the Languedoc Roussillon region of...
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